gull
noun
any of numerous long-winged, web-toed, aquatic birds of the family Laridae, having usually white plumage with a gray back and wings.
gull-like
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a word derived from
gull.
Example Sentences
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The charity's staff and volunteers were "dismayed" as it became clear there were far fewer of the gull-like seabirds on the island than they had hoped.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2023
Suddenly, she let out a cry of joy as a large gull-like seabird - known in Bertin's Creole language as a "fou" - swooped over the deck.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2022
Downy gray chicks chased after any adult that was plausibly their parent, begging for a regurgitated meal, or banded together for safety from the gull-like skuas that preyed on the orphaned and the failing-to-thrive.
From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2016
When he died in the summer of 1937, of actual exhaustion, his imagination and perseverance had shaped to gull-like finality the fastest and finest fighter plane in existence.
From Time Magazine Archive
The peculiar gull-like whistle once more, to run in a softened series of echoes right up into the farthest part of the cavern.
From The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap by Stanley L. Wood
